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Legumes in the Kitchen: They Are Not Just For Nitrogen-Fixing
LEGUMES IN THE KITCHEN: THEY ARE NOT JUST FOR NITROGEN-FIXING When it comes to legumes, I come from a fortunate background. Born and raised in the southern Louisiana, where cuisine is something entirely different than the rest of the United States, food has long been a product of love and cherish. It deserves devotion. It […]
Organic Agriculture Systems Continue to Outshine Conventional Systems in Multiple Studies
ORGANIC AGRICULTURE SYSTEMS CONTINUE TO OUTSHINE CONVENTIONAL SYSTEMS IN MULTIPLE STUDIES. Though organic agriculture currently occupies a surprisingly low 1% of global cropland, several agricultural studies have recently favored organic systems over conventional systems in terms of profitability, crop yields, and environmental safety and health concerns. Rodale Institute has conducted one of the most substantial studies of […]
Give Back to the Garden
GIVE BACK TO THE GARDEN: PAUL TAYLOR TEACHES “LIVING SOILS” For far too long, mankind has viewed soil as a dead substance, something to be sucked dry of its remaining vitality before moving on to cultivate another patch of land. At the same time, we’ve also viewed anything other than what we’ve defined as the […]
Social Polycultures: Using Permaculture For Building Resilient Relationships
SOCIAL POLYCULTURES: USING PERMACULTURE FOR BUILDING RESILIENT RELATIONSHIPS Many people use permaculture to design physical systems like farms and homesteads, to have the resilience and benefits that are found in natural systems. They use the permaculture ethics and principles, coupled with a holistic design process to create relationships between elements that foster greater ease, mutual […]
The Definitive Guide to Keeping Chickens in Winter
THE DEFINITIVE GUIDE TO KEEPING CHICKENS IN WINTER Welcome to The Definitive Guide To Keeping Chickens In Winter. Raising chickens during winter can be a challenging time for backyard chicken owners. With those dark cold mornings and the drop in egg production, it’s no wonder we don’t like this time of year! So I decided […]
Food Standards Australia and New Zealand on the Brink of GM Decision
FOOD STANDARDS AUSTRALIA AND NEW ZEALAND ON THE BRINK OF GM DECISION Food Standards Australia and New Zealand (FSANZ) is in the midst of making a critical decision that could impact what you know about your food in the future. The question at hand is whether or not certain new techniques used for plant propagation […]
Answering For Climate Change: A Peruvian Farmer Sues an Energy Giant
ANSWERING FOR CLIMATE CHANGE: A PERUVIAN FARMER SUES AN ENERGY GIANT Saul Luciano Lliuya lives near Huaraz, a city in the Andes. Huaraz may not exist much longer, thanks to the swiftly melting Churup Glacier. The glacier feeds a lake which has grown more than thirty times in volume over the past four decades, and […]
David Holmgren Interview on Permaculture, Energy Descent & Future Scenarios
DAVID HOLMGREN INTERVIEW ON PERMACULTURE, ENERGY DESCENT & FUTURE SCENARIOS An interview with David Holmgren, questions by Samuel Alexander, a lecturer with the Office for Environmental Programs and research fellow at the Melbourne Sustainable Society Institute (MSSI), University of Melbourne. He also co-directs the Simplicity Institute. This is the full length interview from the upcoming documentary […]
When You Grow Your Food–You Know Your Food
WHEN YOU GROW YOUR FOOD—YOU KNOW YOUR FOOD When did food get so complicated? Not complicated to prepare, of course; it seems like companies delight in creating ever-more-convenient foods for us to enjoy, right out of the package or after a short trip through the microwave. But at what cost does that convenience come? The […]
Ancient Origins of Agroforestry, Polycultures, and Permaculture As We Know It
ANCIENT ORIGINS OF AGROFORESTRY, POLYCULTURES, AND PERMACULTURE AS WE KNOW IT The design philosophy of Permaculture as we know it today was founded by Bill Mollison and David Holmgren, but the methods used are by no means novel or even innovative practices. Ironically, permaculture’s methods are cutting edge in comparison to the dull spade of […]
What is Degrowth? Envisioning a Prosperous Descent
What is Degrowth? Envisioning a Prosperous Descent This is a transcript of my keynote address presented at the ‘Local Lives, Global Matters’ conference in Castlemaine, Victoria, 16-18 October 2015. Other keynote speakers included Rob Hopkins, David Holmgren, and Helena Norberg-Hodge. INTRODUCTION Thank you for that introduction, Jacinta, good morning everyone. I would like to begin […]
The Differences Between Commercial and Organic Honey Can Help You Find Your Sweet Spot
The Differences Between Commercial and Organic Honey Can Help You Find Your Sweet Spot For thousands of years, honey has been widely used for both nutritional and medicinal purposes. Over 300 varieties are available in the United States alone. These range from those that are nearly colorless and bland tasting, to strains offering rich brown […]
Human Permaculture: Some Ideas On How To ‘Seed’ Information For Fertile Results
Human Permaculture: Some Ideas On How To ‘Seed’ Information For Fertile Results SEEDS AND STORIES In my previous article, ‘Human Permaculture: Looking at Migration as Flow to Solve Problems’ (1), I explored how we can apply permaculture water-designs to help people who are ‘flowing’ from one place along particular pathways to reach the destinations suitable for them […]
Piecing Together a Guild of Your Own
Piecing Together a Guild of Your Own In the scheme of permaculture food production, harnessing the most out of nature whilst using its own attributes, creating plant guilds ranks pretty high up there. Most of us know them in simplified forms such as the three sisters—corn, beans and squash—or companion plantings like carrots and onions […]
How Soil and Carbon are Related
How Soil and Carbon are Related Carbon cycle is one of the fundamental requirement of life on earth. Soil organic carbon (SOC) can be described as the amount of carbon that is stored in the soil as one of the components of the soil organic matter which comprises the animal and plant materials and different […]
